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Joseph Schmidt-Görg (born Schmidt 19 March 1897 – 3 April 1981) was a German
Schiedermair was a founding member and first director of the Beethoven Archive in Bonn in 1927. He called Schmidt-Görg to be his research assistant. Schmidt-Görg succeeded him as director in 1945 and held the post until 1972. He completed the new edition of Beethoven's complete works, ''Neue Beethoven-Gesamtausgabe'', that Schiedermair had initiated. He edited piano works, in collaboration with his son Hans Schmidt. He also began the publications of the Beethoven House.
Schmidt-Görg died in Bad Neuenahr at the age of 84.
Festschrift Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 60. Geburtstag
', edited bu Dagmar Weise, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1957 * ''Colloquium amicorum. Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 70. Geburtstag''.''Colloquium amicorum. Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 70. Geburtstag.''
on WorldCat edited by Siegfried Kross und Hans Schmidt, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1967 *
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
, composer and music editor. As a researcher at the University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...
and director of the Beethoven Archive, he is regarded as one of the leading Beethoven scholars of his time. He completed the new edition of Beethoven's complete works.
Life
Born Joseph Schmidt in (now part ofWitten
Witten () is a city with almost 100,000 inhabitants in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (district) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Witten is situated in the Ruhr valley, in the southern Ruhr area.
Bordering municipalities
* Bochum
* Dortmu ...
), he studied musicology at the University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...
with Ludwig Schiedermair
Ludwig Ferdinand Schiedermair (7 December 1876, in Regensburg – 30 April 1957, in Bensberg) was a German minister and musicologist. He concerned himself with opera history, Mozart, and Beethoven. In 1914 he edited the first complete critical edi ...
, also philosophy, pedagogy and experimental physics. He achieved the doctorate in 1926 with a dissertation about the masses by Clemens non Papa
Jacobus Clemens non Papa (also Jacques Clément or Jacob Clemens non Papa) ( – 1555 or 1556) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance based for most of his life in Flanders. He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and ...
. He composed masses and other sacred music, including a mass for five-part choir in 1924, a motet, ''Christus natus est'', for eight voices, the same year, and a mass ''Missa Exultet'' in 1927.
He officially changed his name in 1930. After his habilitation that year, on ''Mitteltontemperatur'', he lectured at the university, was appointed professor in 1938, and ''Ordinarius'' in 1948. He was emerited in 1965.
Schiedermair was a founding member and first director of the Beethoven Archive in Bonn in 1927. He called Schmidt-Görg to be his research assistant. Schmidt-Görg succeeded him as director in 1945 and held the post until 1972. He completed the new edition of Beethoven's complete works, ''Neue Beethoven-Gesamtausgabe'', that Schiedermair had initiated. He edited piano works, in collaboration with his son Hans Schmidt. He also began the publications of the Beethoven House.
Schmidt-Görg died in Bad Neuenahr at the age of 84.
Books
* ''Das rheinische Volkslied'', Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1934 * ''Katalog der Handschriften des Beethoven-Hauses und des Beethoven-Archivs Bonn'', Bonn 1935 * ''Nicolas Gombart, Kapellmeister Kaiser Karls V. Leben und Werk'', Bonn: Röhrscheid, 1938 * ''Beethoven. Die Geschichte seiner Familie'', Munich: Henle 1964 * ''Des Bonner Bäckermeisters Gottfried Fischer Aufzeichnungen über Beethovens Jugend'', Munich: Henle, 1971 * ''Beethoven'', as editor with Hans Schmidt * ''Musik der Gotik'', Bonn: Schwippert, 1946Articles
* ''Beethoven und das kurkölnische Geistesleben'', in ''Allgemeine Musikzeitung'', Jg. 54 (1927), p. 549f. * ''Zur Musikanschauung in den Schriften der hl. Hildegard'', in ''Der Mensch und die Künste. Festschrift fürHeinrich Lützeler
Heinrich Lützeler (27 January 1902 in Bonn – 13 June 1988 in Bonn) was a German philosopher, art historian, and literary scholar. He presided over a number of institutes and was dean at the department of philosophy at the University of Bonn.
Bi ...
zum 60. Geburtstag'', Düsseldorf 1962,
* ''Ein Schiller-Zitat Beethovens in neuer Sicht'', in ''Musik, Edition, Interpretation. Gedenkschrift Günther Henle Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse ''gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gun ...
'', Munich 1980,
Further reading
*Thomas Phleps Thomas Phleps (2 September 1955 – 5 June 2017) was a German guitarist and musicologist.
Life
Born in Bad Hersfeld, Phleps studieded at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the University of Kassel and completed his studies in 1981 and 1983 re ...
: ''Ein stiller, verbissener und zäher Kampf um Stetigkeit – Musikwissenschaft in NS-Deutschland und ihre vergangenheitspolitische Bewältigung'', in Isolde v. Foerster et al. (ed.), '' Musikforschung – Nationalsozialismus – Faschismus'', Mainz 2001, .
* Festschrift Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 60. Geburtstag
', edited bu Dagmar Weise, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1957 * ''Colloquium amicorum. Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 70. Geburtstag''.
on WorldCat edited by Siegfried Kross und Hans Schmidt, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1967 *
Sieghard Brandenburg
Sieghard Brandenburg (21 January 1938 – 18 December 2015) was a German musicologist, who stood out especially as a Beethoven researcher.
Life
Born in Bad Frankenhausen, Brandenburg studied music (main subject oboe), musicology and mathematics ...
, ''Sammeln und Bewahren – Edieren und Auswerten. Aus der Gründungszeit des Beethoven-Archivs'', in ''Bonner Beethoven-Studien'', Vol. 5 (2006),
References
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:SchmidtGorg, Joseph 20th-century German musicologists Beethoven scholars Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany University of Bonn faculty 1897 births 1981 deaths People from Witten